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The evil being done by Biden's hatchet man Merrick Garland never ends.
That this is happening is dystopic.
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That this is happening is dystopic.
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In January 2021, shortly after the January 6 incident inaugurated a national anti-MAGA crackdown, the Department of Justice charged Mackey with “conspiring … to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.”
Mackey’s offense? Illegal memes.
Specifically, the DOJ claims that the above meme merits a prison sentence of up to ten years, for violation of 18 U.S. Code § 241. The law, which concerns “Conspiracy against rights,” is a subset of the Enforcement Act of 1871, better known as the Ku Klux Klan Act.
The DOJ’s argument is that, by posting the above memes on Twitter in 2016, and designing it to resemble a Hillary Clinton ad, Mackey deceived the public into casting invalid text message votes, as part of a conspiracy to deprive them of the right to vote.
To be clear, the federal government can’t show that this actually happened. But the government says that proving a dumb meme fooled a single person is not necessary to find one guilty of the dastardly crime of disinformation.
To drive home the absurdity of the charge, it’s worth quoting the relevant law in full:
Reading the law, it’s obvious how it was aimed at the Ku Klux Klan. It is plainly, and obviously, meant to criminalize physical violence, threats, or intimidation used to prevent people from exercising constitutional rights, such as the right to vote.
Now, the DOJ claims that the law’s scope includes possibly tricking someone with a meme on Twitter.
At the risk of being tedious, we will explain: memes promoting incorrect election dates are old hat. People have been making them online and in print since at least 2000, and who are we kidding, probably well before that. They’re either a humorous indication of one’s desire to win a race, or else a political in-joke — “Man, Democrats/Republicans are so stupid they’d probably believe someone telling them election day is Wednesday!”
And of course, it doesn’t matter if some people were too dumb to get the joke. As the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in the 2013 case Farah v. Esquire:
Is the joke a very good one? People can disagree. But it’s absolutely a joke that existed long before 2016, and until the Biden DOJ decided otherwise, it was never a crime.
This bears mentioning over and over again, if necessary: the law has never been used in this way before. This case is a drastic escalation in the use of “disinformation” as an excuse to target dissenting political voices. A regime that previously relied on deplatforming or doxing (both of which have already been used on Mackey) now makes use of outright felony prosecutions with the threat of decade-long prison sentences.
The case against Mackey is facially ridiculous. The charges, first brought two whole years ago, should have been immediately tossed out in court. Yet, incredibly, in mid-January, Mackey’s bid to have the case thrown out was rejected by Clinton-appointed district court judge Nicholas G. Garaufis.
Yet reading through Garaufis’s ruling rejecting the motion to dismiss does all the work necessary to show how repugnant and feeble the case is.
“This case is about conspiracy and injury, not speech,” writes Garaufis. Yet the government has produced no injured party, and there is no conduct that has occurred besides Mackey’s speech. Then, Garaufis proceeds to make one of the darkest, yet also most ridiculous comparisons imaginable:
In a sequence straight out of a black comedy, Garaufis’s ruling describes what is plainly a freewheeling online groupchat as though it was a plot to overthrow the government.
Yes, the government is using the “Draft Our Daughters” meme as evidence to claim Mackey should go to prison.
The federal government has not produced a single person who failed to cast a ballot due to Mackey’s supposed perfidy. It hasn’t produced anyone who claims they almost failed to vote based on Mackey’s memes. All it can produce is evidence that people texted the number on the meme, a completely meaningless measurement when any number of people might have done so just to see what would happen.
But now, the claim is headed to trial, in the Eastern District of New York, a venue whose jury figures to be favorable to the prosecution. And in one of the most sinister events of this entire Kafkaesque process, Garaufis also initially sought to mandate that Mackey’s jury consist entirely of those fully up-to-date on their Covid vaccinations.
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In January 2021, shortly after the January 6 incident inaugurated a national anti-MAGA crackdown, the Department of Justice charged Mackey with “conspiring … to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.”
Mackey’s offense? Illegal memes.
Specifically, the DOJ claims that the above meme merits a prison sentence of up to ten years, for violation of 18 U.S. Code § 241. The law, which concerns “Conspiracy against rights,” is a subset of the Enforcement Act of 1871, better known as the Ku Klux Klan Act.
The DOJ’s argument is that, by posting the above memes on Twitter in 2016, and designing it to resemble a Hillary Clinton ad, Mackey deceived the public into casting invalid text message votes, as part of a conspiracy to deprive them of the right to vote.
To be clear, the federal government can’t show that this actually happened. But the government says that proving a dumb meme fooled a single person is not necessary to find one guilty of the dastardly crime of disinformation.
To drive home the absurdity of the charge, it’s worth quoting the relevant law in full:
Reading the law, it’s obvious how it was aimed at the Ku Klux Klan. It is plainly, and obviously, meant to criminalize physical violence, threats, or intimidation used to prevent people from exercising constitutional rights, such as the right to vote.
Now, the DOJ claims that the law’s scope includes possibly tricking someone with a meme on Twitter.
At the risk of being tedious, we will explain: memes promoting incorrect election dates are old hat. People have been making them online and in print since at least 2000, and who are we kidding, probably well before that. They’re either a humorous indication of one’s desire to win a race, or else a political in-joke — “Man, Democrats/Republicans are so stupid they’d probably believe someone telling them election day is Wednesday!”
And of course, it doesn’t matter if some people were too dumb to get the joke. As the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in the 2013 case Farah v. Esquire:
Is the joke a very good one? People can disagree. But it’s absolutely a joke that existed long before 2016, and until the Biden DOJ decided otherwise, it was never a crime.
This bears mentioning over and over again, if necessary: the law has never been used in this way before. This case is a drastic escalation in the use of “disinformation” as an excuse to target dissenting political voices. A regime that previously relied on deplatforming or doxing (both of which have already been used on Mackey) now makes use of outright felony prosecutions with the threat of decade-long prison sentences.
The case against Mackey is facially ridiculous. The charges, first brought two whole years ago, should have been immediately tossed out in court. Yet, incredibly, in mid-January, Mackey’s bid to have the case thrown out was rejected by Clinton-appointed district court judge Nicholas G. Garaufis.
Yet reading through Garaufis’s ruling rejecting the motion to dismiss does all the work necessary to show how repugnant and feeble the case is.
“This case is about conspiracy and injury, not speech,” writes Garaufis. Yet the government has produced no injured party, and there is no conduct that has occurred besides Mackey’s speech. Then, Garaufis proceeds to make one of the darkest, yet also most ridiculous comparisons imaginable:
In a sequence straight out of a black comedy, Garaufis’s ruling describes what is plainly a freewheeling online groupchat as though it was a plot to overthrow the government.
Yes, the government is using the “Draft Our Daughters” meme as evidence to claim Mackey should go to prison.
The federal government has not produced a single person who failed to cast a ballot due to Mackey’s supposed perfidy. It hasn’t produced anyone who claims they almost failed to vote based on Mackey’s memes. All it can produce is evidence that people texted the number on the meme, a completely meaningless measurement when any number of people might have done so just to see what would happen.
But now, the claim is headed to trial, in the Eastern District of New York, a venue whose jury figures to be favorable to the prosecution. And in one of the most sinister events of this entire Kafkaesque process, Garaufis also initially sought to mandate that Mackey’s jury consist entirely of those fully up-to-date on their Covid vaccinations.
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